II. Fill in the table with what happened in Milton’s life in these years.

1660 Milton was released and in 1660 the monarchy was

reestablished with King Charles II.
1625 Milton enrolled at Christ’s College, Cambridge
1667 Milton published Lost Paradise.
1660 The Stuart monarchy was restored
The monarchy was reestablished with King Charles II
1638 Milton travelled to France and Italy where he likely met
Galileo.
The publication of Lycidas in 1638 in Justa Edouardo King
Naufrago was signed J. M.
1656 Milton married Katherine Woodcock
1642 he married Mary Powell
1659 Milton was imprisoned for his contributions to the fall of
Charles I and support of Cromwell’s Commonwealth
1652 Mary Powell, his wife, died.
Milton became totally blind.

III. Give the meaning of the words in bold.

N Word Meaning
º
1 Flux Describes something that constantly changes (likes,
dislikes, attitudes, dreams, and even people)
2 Upheaval A violent or sudden change or disruption to something.
3 Espoused To become involved with or support an activity or
opinion.
4 Paramount: More important than anything else
5 Staunch Always loyal in supporting a person, organization, or
set of beliefs or opinions.
6 Banished To send someone away from a place as a punishment
7 Disinherited To prevent someone, especially a son or daughter who
has made you angry, from receiving any of your
property after your death.
8 Behalf For someone or instead of someone.
9 Reinstated To give someone back their previous job or position, or
to cause something to exist again.
10 Awarded To give money or a prize following an official decision
11 Lacked The fact that something is not available or that there
is not enough of it.
12 Fellow Used to refer to someone who has the same job or
interests as you, or is in the same situation as you.
13 Impelled To make someone feel that they must do something.
14 Befriended To be friendly towards someone.
15 Elegy A sad poem or song, especially remembering someone
who has died or something in the past.
16 Entwined Closely connected or unable to be separated.
17 Beheading To cut off someone's head, especially as a punishment.
18 Imprisoned To put someone in prison.
19 Commonwealth. A group of countries with the
same political or economic aims.
20 Tempted To make someone want to have or do something,
especially something that is unnecessary or wrong.
21 Depicting To represent or show something in a picture or story.
22 Sequel A book, film, or play that continues the story of a
previous book, etc.
23 Succumbed To lose the determination to oppose something; to
accept defeat.
24 Redeemed To make something or someone seem less bad.
25 Availability The fact that something can be bought, used,
or reached, or how much it can be.
26 Released To give freedom or free movement to someone or
something.
27 Succumbs To lose the determination to oppose something; to
accept defeat.
28 Redeems To make something or someone seem less bad.
29 Wedded (used especially in newspapers) to marry someone.
30 Amanuensis A person whose job is to write down what
another person says or to copy what
another person has written.
31 Concoct To make something, usually food, by adding several
different parts together, often in a way that is
original or not planned.
32 Corporeal Physical and not spiritual.
33 Incorporeal Not having a physical body but a spiritual form.
34 Pious Strongly believing in religion, and living in a way that
shows this belief.
35 Hell An extremely unpleasant or difficult place, situation,
or experience.
36 Host someone who has guests
37 Awe-struck filled with feelings of admiration or respect
38 Debauchery bad sexual behaviour, drinking too much alcohol, taking
drugs, etc
39 Disregard the fact of showing no care or respect for something
40 Exhilarating making you feel very excited and happy
41 Lovelorn sad because the person you love does not love you
42 Stunning extremely beautiful or attractive
43 The A new, better, and more interesting place, job, or
misquotation activity
‘fresh fields
and pastures
new
44 Areopagitica Is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar,
and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing
and censorship
PARADISE LOST VOCABULARY
1 Revenge Harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that
they have done to someone else
2 Prophecied The ability to say what is going to happen in the
future
3 Undertakes To do or begin to do something, especially something
that will take a long time or be difficult
4 Offspring A person's children
5 Commandment An order, especially one of the Ten Commandments
6 Banished To send someone away, especially from their country,
and not allow them to come back
7 Warn To make someone realize a possible danger or problem,
especially one in the futur
8 Favored Supported or preferred over anyone or anything else
9 Heaven (In some religions) the place where God or the gods
live or where good people are believed to go after
they die, sometimes thought to be in the sky
10 Mankind The whole of the human race, including both men and
women
11 Fallen Used to refer to someone who has been defeated or
has lost a position of power
12 Resigned Accepting that something you do not like will happen
because you cannot change it
13 Fate A power that some people believe causes and controls
all events, so that you cannot change or control the
way things will happen
 14 Nakedness The state of being naked
15 Despair the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do
nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation
16 Sinners a person who commits sins
17 Sensing a general feeling or understanding
18 Turned into to change and become someone or something
different, or to make someone or something do this
19 Punishment to punish anyone who commits a particular crime
20 Expel to force someone to leave a school, organization, or
country
21 Revived to come or bring something back to life, health,
existence, or use

Activity 2 Fill in the Facts

Name: John Milton

Born in (year): 1608

Died in (year): 1674

Father’s jobs: scrivener. He was also a

moneylender, and he negotiated with creditors to arrange for loans on
behalf of his clients.

His wives were: Elizabeth Mynshull, Katherine Woodcock and Mary Powell.

Children’s names: John Powell Milton, Deborah Powell Milton, Mary Powell
Milton, Annie Powell Milton.

In his lifetime he learned Latin, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, French, and

Spanish.

He attended Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1629 with a Bachelor of Arts

degree, and 1632 with a Master of Arts.

John Milton’s health problems: kidney failure and gout attack.

He was an English poet of the 15th century.

The only poetry of his to see print: the 1645 collection

First poem published: “On Shakespeare” (1630)

Greatest epic poem: Paradise Lost written in English. (language)

Milton collected his work in 1645 Poems

Paradise Lost is about the story of how Satan tempted Adam and Eve, and
their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.